Special NoticePosted Aug 20, 2026·Responses due Aug 27, 2026

Portable Cabin Pressure Tester

Air Force and Space Force · FA4809 4TH CONS SQ CC

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
336413
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
F3T2EM6119AQ01
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
4920
Place
Goldsboro, NC, USA
Contact
De'Montae Frink (demontae.frink@us.af.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation F3T2EM6119AQ01 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 20, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 13, 2026 to Jul 21, 2027, middle of the range Feb 10, 2027.
Measured from 17 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force with NAICS 336413 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 20, 2026).

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

The 4th Contracting Squadron is issuing this presolicitation notice of intent to sole-source IAW RFO 5.101 for the Portable Cabin Pressure Tester - CPT [15-7609-6000-FJ] or equal-- Qty 2 to A3 Systems Corporation. The Government invites offerors to submit a response to this notice that would demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government, would not be cost or time prohibitive, and would not hinder mission objectives. The determination not to compete this proposed contract action is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information r… (show all)

eceived will normally be considered for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The Government will not be responsible for any costs incurred by responding to this notice. THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES; AND NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE.

Who won similar work

2 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 336413.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Chase Supply, Inc.1$87KAug 13, 2025
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC · $HON1$40KJun 24, 2025

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 2 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (10 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of job
  • $346K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Armed Services, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 8 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 32 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards.

  • 1 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 2 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.